tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62922042735559905322024-03-13T06:53:24.305-04:00Made In The Shade In 2nd GradeLisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-68731501563625128212012-04-23T19:13:00.003-04:002012-04-23T19:13:40.918-04:00Weekly Cheat Sheet<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Monday Everyone!!! Last week was a toughie! We were back from break... PLUS, there was
Report Card Monday, followed by Conferences on Wednesday and Thursday and
Earth(Craft-Craziness) Friday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Luckily, today started with a work day – which I
used to pull together our school’s writing night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, I just wanted to pop in and share something so
little I didn’t think big… Until, about 80% of parents mentioned how much they
LOVE it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each Monday I send home a “Cheat Sheet” for parents to hang
on their fridge. This list has their spelling words, teaching objective for
each subject area, and events for each day of the week. So many parents
mentioned how much this helped them juggle the craziness of having a 7 year
old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have first and second graders in my class, so the
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope your week is off to a great start!</span></div>Lisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-19630524616539524232012-04-03T17:33:00.002-04:002012-04-03T17:33:15.350-04:0011 Absent Fun Time!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh. My. Word! It was a half day today! The kind where you
only come to school in the afternoon. In my in my classroom this meant 11
students absent! 11! What are you supposed to do with almost half the class
absent?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">WELL, I pulled out crafts that would terrify me any other
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<span style="font-size: large;">We’ve been working through our weather unit and have been
spending the week talking about cloud cover and wind. SOOOO, we pulled out the
glue/shaving cream combo to make a little text-to-self project about Eric Carle’s
Little Cloud. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We used the sentence frame, “Sometimes Little Cloud looked like
_________________” and filled in the sentence with the shape they made with our
glue/foam combo.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">SOME TIPS TO MAKING LASTING FOAM:</span></u></div>
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equal parts foam and glue. However, we found that resulted in a liquid-ish
cloud. So, our recommendation is that you use about a quarter of the glue than shaving
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<span style="font-size: large;">Below is the little cloud sentence my kids wrote in if you’re
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two more days until I am kicking my feet up on SPRING BREAK
(So jealous of you spring breaking it now!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">P.S. First graders just finished up their geometry unit. Love the kiddo for doing a rectangle! :) However, store was easier to spell... So, he had a last minute switch! </span></div>
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go! Two days in a row… I feel like the little train, “I think I can!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Today I’m
sharing a little craft-ivity that supports yesterday’s candy hunt post </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">J</span><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">These little
babies are soooo easy to make and sooooo cheap! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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included in this post matches the size of these white paper bags found in a
little store called “Wall-Mart.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">All I do is
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Then,
students decorate the bags at school. </span><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">We pull out the odds and ends and let the
kiddos get inspired.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">These babies
are cheap, quick and easy! Plus, some of our sweet babes don’t have an Easter
basket, so these little substitutes really
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back tomorrow? “I think we can!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>Lisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-203146988048324132012-04-01T21:03:00.002-04:002012-04-01T21:04:05.891-04:00Pre-Vacation Crazies! {Freebie}<br />
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Holy cow! How
did Easter sneak up on me this fast?! Thank goodness this week is four little
days long!! Then, we’re off for our spring break! WOO-HOO!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">However,
most of my kiddos are just as excited for the break... This means they
are 9 kinds of crazy from 8:30-3:30!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">To combat this, my
absolutely amazing team partner – Donna – has an amazing behavior incentive we
use during this last week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Each student
gets this fancy little score card taped to their desk. From Thursday-Thursday
students keep track of the points they earn each day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Each student
starts the day with 5 points. In our case, each time a student “moves his/her
color zone” they lose a point on the sheet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">In my case: 5= Green, 4=Yellow,
3=Orange, 2=Red, 1=Trip to the office, 0=Absent. At the end of the day, each
student circles the points they’ve earned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">However, you
might have noticed the blank spots near the bottom. Students have the
opportunity for BONUS points! If our friends move up the color chart, show exceptional work quality, can read their
wonder words… They can earn bonus points!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">In the last
hour of the day, we take our students outside and throw tons of candy in a
field (candy donated from our parents). Students get to hunt in the order of
points earned – the highest scoring students have the most time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh well! I
hope your week is off to a fabulous start! It’s my mega-late Lenten promise to
update this chickadee more regularly! So don’t forget us! BECAUSE I WILL BE
BACK </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">J</span><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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super amazing happy birthday to the fabulous Mrs. Lizak! <o:p></o:p></span></div>Lisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-66393283486771475162012-03-08T16:55:00.000-05:002012-03-08T16:55:08.017-05:00The Not-So-Amazing-Race/Website FREEBIES Galore!<br />
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What up bloggy friends! Long time no post….. But, we’re
back! And we’re living it up BIG in Grand Rapids this week! We’re here for
the MACUL Conference and Lisa’s sticking around for MRA! Big time PD hours here<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span>. </div>
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It was quite a road trip! Three cars left our school district
at the same time…. Except, we stayed back to socialize for 40 minutes…
Surprise, surprise! Well, once we finally hit the road, we needed gas – and in
true GPS fashion we found a gas station in the deepest corner of the roughest
neighborhood… BUT! Gas was cheap! So, win? We also met a sweet lady who was
having a great day! She shared her saucy story with us and the gas station
attendant—since this classy establishment only took cash! </div>
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WELL, we
were finally on the road! It took us 2 hours to go 40 miles… TRAFFIC, accidents
and TRAFFIC! At 7:30 we gave up on driving and decided it was dinner time.
Unfortunately all of Novi decided it was also dinner time and headed to the
same restaurant. After an hour and 15 minutes our meal was served (our waitress
informed us our soup was holding our order up – really?!). </div>
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As we walked out of dinner, the other two cars arrived in Grand Rapids…. We,
however, were only 40 miles deep in a roughly 300 mile road trip. Worst.
Amazing. Race. Team. EVER! BUT, probably the most entertaining! </div>
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We’re here though and made it through our first day of
MACUL! We attended a great session featuring resources for Interactive
Whiteboards! This session was hosted by the fabulous Pirate Truger. She has
compiled 45 fun websites for your classroom’s interactive board! All websites
are free! Her site can be found here:</div>
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We’ve been playing at ABCya.com since we got back!! This is
website designed for ages K-5 and allows you to access content by grade level.
We found activities that were supportive across the curriculum!</div>
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We'll be back more frequently! Enjoy your Friday and have fun playing on these sites!! We are!!</div>Lisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-9947522632201311862012-03-04T20:09:00.000-05:002012-03-04T20:09:04.960-05:00"Egg"citing Contractions {FREEBIE} :)<span style="font-size: large;">WOW! Have I missed you guys :) Remember that plague I mentioned last week, well it turned into pneuemonia and quickly put a damper on all of my big plans for last week...yikes! That on top of all the craziness going on at school, and I was one wiped teacher! But, I'm sooo glad to be back! I have truly missed talking to all of my fave bloggy buddies :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I made you a super cute "Egg"citing Contractions Memory Match Game that you can download {</span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Eggciting-Contractions-Memory-Match-Game" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">} or by clicking the pic below :) Hopefully you find it helpful, my kiddos have really struggled with contractions this year so we're just gonna keep on working on them. I can't wait to share all of the super cool stuff that we have going on this week, so stay tuned and see you tomorrow my FAB friends!!! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lisa and I have been SWAMPED with PD and
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<span style="font-size: large;">BUT! We have not stopped
thinking of you and here is a sneak peek of a super AWESOME and probably the
best piece of work we’ve done to date…… Seriously, this thing is going to be
MASSIVE, SUPER cute, and a Reading Night Program!! GET EXCITED.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lisa and I will be back shortly! {Hopefully not sporadically!}</span></div>Lisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-61384135448487593612012-02-26T18:43:00.000-05:002012-02-26T18:43:26.302-05:00{FREE} Animal ABC Order Activity<span style="font-size: large;">Hi kids! I'm gonna keep this short and sweet today because after having the whole week off, I now feel like I've contracted the plague right before we head back tomorrow...YUCK! I'm going to get some much needed rest, but I found the cutest clip art this week and had to make something cute for you guys :) We'll be using these Animal ABC Order cards this week during Daily Five. Click the pics below to get your free cards and recording sheet :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have a great week bloggy buddies!!!</span></div>Lisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-61843979136566452072012-02-24T18:30:00.000-05:002012-02-24T18:35:24.216-05:00"Array" of Sunshine {FREEBIES} :)<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Friday! Today is the last day of mid winter break for us so it's time to get ready for March next week! We'll be doing a lot in math, especially working on arrays and multiplication...and I can't wait! {I puffy heart arrays!} We made these FAB "array" of sunshine (I LOVE a good play on words) projects last year and this whole class display for the hallway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each student made their own "array" of sunshine rainbow with sunshine and clouds. I gave each student a sheet of </span><a href="http://www.waterproofpaper.com/graph-paper/graph-paper-quarter-inch.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">grid paper</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, two cotton balls, a sheet of blue construction paper, and a </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4mM8YmU-H5sa19fNFZKd2RUTjJqTFBMaUJmMVd6dw" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">sunshine template</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> to trace on yellow or gold construction paper. I let each student draw out their arrays with any equation they want so all of the projects were differentiated by ability level. Above grade level students could draw more complex arrays while other students could work on more basic arrays. Each student then labeled the backs of their arrays with a pencil before gluing them down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The end result...a super cute rainbow spring craftivity display that matches up to the </span><a href="http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/mathematics/grade-2/operations-and-algebraic-thinking/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">common core</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">! Gotta love that right?!?! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our social studies curriculum calls for us to be teaching
the “Core Democratic Values.” Luckily for me, the state of Michigan breaks
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<span style="font-size: large;">I always start with The Pursuit of Happiness. I love it because kids
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First of all, our district put together this wonderful pacing guide (that I would love to share - but is still in draft form with the district) to align all of our reading comprehension strategies, phonics lessons, and all things speaking and listening into one common core friendly document. {I heart it!} After we were given this document, I went through and typed all of my mini-lessons (57 pages worth) and then broke them into sub-categories by comprehension strategy. A lot of my mini-lesson ideas came from <a href="http://thelearningpad.net/readers_mini_lessons.html" target="_blank">The Learning Pad</a> and I edited them to make them work in my own classroom, so because the ideas aren't originally mine I won't share this crazy document with you. But, {<a href="http://thelearningpad.net/readers_mini_lessons.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>} is the original website if you would like to check out her amazing reading workshop mini lessons!<br />
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I then went through and gave an individual tab to each comprehension strategy for graphic organizers (ex. schema and all activities schema related - all in one place). We also developed these graphic organizers that you can download here for {<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Readers-Response-Templates" target="_blank">FREE</a>} or by clicking the pic below! There are 50 different graphic organizers that help review making connections, visualizing, schema, summarizing, retelling, and predicting/inferring.<br />
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Sadly, there was still organizing all my amazing finds from <a href="http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/reading%20workshop.htm" target="_blank">Beth Newingham</a>, <a href="http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/reading%20workshop.htm" target="_blank">Michelle Oakes</a>, <a href="http://lessonplansos.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Lesson Plan SOS</a>, and <a href="http://oneextradegree.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Amanda Nickerson</a>! All of these ideas about Reader's Notebooks, Non-fiction Text Features, fairy tale units, etc. all received their own tab for resources in the 3" binder too! But, my FAV part of this fab binder...you flip it over and {BAZINGA!} all of my writer's workshop resources too! <br />
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But, that's a tale for another day :)Lisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-47016332963715332202012-02-21T19:00:00.000-05:002012-02-21T19:08:18.842-05:00No Leprechauns On My Watch! {Traps!}<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">OK. Now that the kiddos are gone… I’ll let you in on a secret.
Leprechauns are not real. Upsetting and earth shattering, I know. But each year
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each student shares his/her trap and explains how it works to the class. We also snap a
picture of the kiddo and the trap. We set the traps each time we leave the room
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<span style="font-size: large;">While we’re out together (library or recess) one of my sweet teammates
comes through and completely trashes our room and puts a chocolate coin in each
trap. We’ve had the leprechaun leave little green footprints around the room,
he’s flipped chairs, he’s hid some book bins, and he has even thrown GLITTER on
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This packet is 94 pages long! And is only $1 on <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Out-of-This-World-Math-and-Literacy-Activities" target="_blank">TpT</a>.<br />
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Subtraction Flashcards: pgs. 19-28<br />
Alien Addition: pg. 29<br />
Time to Blast Off!: pgs. 30-31<br />
Space Race to 100: pg. 32<br />
Moon Money: pgs. 33-34<br />
Saturn Sums: pg. 35<br />
Earth Even or Odd?: pg. 36<br />
Galaxy Geometry: pg. 37<br />
Fact Family Rocket Ship Craftivity and Directions: pgs. 38-41<br />
Alien craftivity and writing: pgs. 42-48<br />
How to get to space flow map and writing: pgs. 49 - 50<br />
Alien at school multi flow map: pg. 51<br />
Aliens and humans compare/contrast double bubble map: pg. 52<br />
Exploring space multi flow map: pg. 53<br />
Friendly letter to an alien: pgs. 54-55<br />
Rocket Ship Bubble Map: pg. 56<br />
Astronaut Thinking Maps: pg. 57 - 61<br />
Alien Thinking Maps: pgs. 62-66<br />
Out of this World words! - a vocab map: pg. 67<br />
I have, who has?: A spacey contraction Conundrum: PGS. 68-74<br />
The Great Space Race - A Dolch Sight Word Game: Pgs. 75-92<br />
Great Picture Books to Use With This Unit: Pg. 93<br />
THANK YOU AND CREDITS: PG. 94<br />
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Christina from <a href="http://bainbridgeclass.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mrs. Bainbridge's Class</a></div>
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We had such a nice time meeting everyone! We spent three hours just laughing, talking YA books, horror stories, and Target finds. We can't wait to do it again! Have a FABULOUS start to your week friends!!!</div>Lisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-52897982090478398942012-02-18T19:00:00.000-05:002012-02-18T19:00:00.675-05:00Winners!!!<span style="font-size: large;">YEAH! We had so much fun doing this giveaway with the fabulous <a href="http://teachitwithclass.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Randi at Teach it with Class</a>! Here's our winners!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Congratulations to all of our winners! We will be emailing you your prizes. Have a WONDERFUL rest of your Saturday!</span>Lisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-9768039755829552742012-02-17T19:27:00.000-05:002012-02-17T19:27:14.412-05:00If You're Awesome and You Know It...Click Right Here!<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Friday Bloggy Buddies! The weekend is here...YEAH! And for us, a mid winter break...DOUBLE YEAH! We are *loving* all of the Dr. Seuss inspired March is Reading Month goodies :) Unfortunately for us, we {GASP} don't have the Seuss theme this year! We're having a literacy carnival/circus as our theme. So, here's the deal. We'll be doing a HUGE actual carnival at the end of March with make and take activities and carnival themed literacy games for our families. If you'd LOVE to share a great game we could play at our carnival or a super creative make and take idea that we can use all of our adorable carnival/circus clip art on...we're going to make it for you and post it here for FREE for all of your help! We're looking for ideas for all elementary grade levels :) So, if you're awesome and want some great freebies, leave us your idea in the comment section below and we'll be working on these over the break!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, if you haven't had a chance to enter our giveaway with the AMAZING </span><a href="http://teachitwithclass.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Randi at Teach It With Class</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, click {</span><a href="http://madeintheshadeinsecondgrade.blogspot.com/2012/02/uber-giveaway-with-4-chances-to-win.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">} because it ends tomorrow evening! Have a great start to your weekend friends and we are looking forward to meeting up with all of our Michigan bloggy buddies on Sunday!</span>Lisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-33125910408288248232012-02-15T21:04:00.000-05:002012-02-15T21:04:50.359-05:00Presidents' Day {Thinking Maps!}<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the end of the week my firsties will choose their favorite president
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research. I wish I could tell you where this template came from – But, I
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<span style="font-size: large;">My second graders, however, did this project last year (which they
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy your Wednesday night!</span></div>Lisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-65669925098558779772012-02-14T17:30:00.000-05:002012-02-14T17:30:00.333-05:00The Day After...Valentine's Day {FREEBIES}!<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Valentine's Day all! Hope you are feelin' the LOVE :) This is just gonna be a quick, lil post because I am headed out for some P.F. Chang's with the hubs (YUM!). I love Valentine's Day because you get to show everyone how much you truly care for them (it should be that way all the time, but sadly we're all crazy busy most of the time)! So, to show you how much Beth and I care about each and everyone of YOU...we made you a little day after Valentine's Day activity pack to use with your kiddos to remind to show kindness and love all through the year!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Happy Valentine's Day Bloggy Buddies!!! :)</span>Lisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-49756362349279322682012-02-13T21:29:00.000-05:002012-02-13T21:29:23.336-05:00Last Minute Valentine's Day Freebie!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hello Monday everyone! At least it’s not a full moon Monday! That
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every year for Valentine’s Day we ask parents to send in the same things:
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<span style="font-size: large;">P.S. My kiddos are totally getting these tomorrow!! Bless <a href="http://www.theteacherwife.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The TeacherWife</a>!! They’re going to flip with excitement (Plus they were totally last minute friendly!)!! </span><br />
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<br /></div>Lisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-66218849369186244652012-02-09T18:58:00.000-05:002012-02-09T19:45:28.088-05:00Everyday Math Apps FREE {Ends Tonight!}<span style="font-size: large;">Our district sent this AMAZING offer! Apparently it's been happening for sometime now.... My bad!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy your Thursday night!!</span>Lisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-35767969207489045512012-02-08T19:35:00.000-05:002012-02-08T19:57:02.488-05:00Guided Reading Plans Template<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hello Everyone! I am sure your life is much like mine: a
to-do list that really is impossible. You know your to-do list is the pits when
it includes: “Write Sub Plans (Friday/Monday).” Heartbreaking update: It’s not
for anything fun or meetings that will end early… More like Benchmark
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, I thought I would pop in with a quick share Wednesday
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before I had even found one teacher blog and wayyyyyyyyyyy before Pinterest, I relied exclusively
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Or, if you are, I feel your pain! </span></div>Lisa Lizak and Beth Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501723271581885765noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6292204273555990532.post-52609445615520137362012-02-07T19:20:00.000-05:002012-02-08T19:22:06.924-05:00Please Not Thay Again! (Word Jail)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since we’ve started this little young thing, I have GREATLY neglected
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actually entering them…. SOOOOOO, my gradebook and I are spending
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over the summer I came across this super cute Word Jail on Mrs. Cooley’s <a href="http://firstgraderatlast.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">First Grader at Last</a> Blog! I immediately knew this idea was for me! (I mean how many
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